curl-6 said:
The next 17 months are gonna be a looong crawl for Xbox
It'll be intriguing to see where its baseline ends up later this year and next, outside of the holidays.
On the flipside, with Mario Maker 2 out with the next weekly numbers and Fire Emblem four weeks after that, Switch should stay above 200k a week for some time to come.
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In all seriousness here, the baseline should drop to near zero, just like MS did with the original version of the X1 they've undermined anyone with thoughts about buying the current set of machines by showing the upcoming system on the distant horizon, they did it with the X1 by saying that the X1X would fix the issues of no power but now they are claiming that the Scarlett will fix the issues of no games, anyone buying into the X1 console right now is doing so either blind or with the knowledge that the system is on the way out.
I've mentioned this multiple times over the last 2 years, but the X1 has been in a cascade tumbling failure for years/months, given the systems direct competition does everything that it does, but better in every category (with one tiny * for the X1X being more capable of getting to 4k in a handful of titles) but the system has no real selling point outside of the potential that someones mates might be on Xbox live, but given the sales that likelyhood is less and less every single week that passes.
I would predict that by the month of November you are going to see the X1 at sub 30k per week, if not scraping to keep at 20k based on the current decline acceleration. The circling of the drain has sped up, just months ago there was talk of it being able to maintain weekly sales of 85k until it reached the 50m mark, that goal gets less and less likely with each sales data update because each month the system loses around 5k from the weekly sales.